Eddy Mammadov

Central Defender - Khazar
25 Dec 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Eddy Mammadov

70 Edition

The Khazar Gazette

29 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Tempers go at Khazar

Baltasar Rodríguez was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at Khazar training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tuure Siira is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Baltasar Rodríguez

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

A bad afternoon for Khazar against Gabala

0‑1 to Gabala, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Loan watch

Javid Medvedev wants to come home

“I did not go to Ravan to sit and watch. I want to come back to Khazar and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.

Squad

The team sheet said everything about Eddy Mammadov

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Eddy Mammadov.

In brief

Back issues
66 Edition

The Khazar Gazette

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

12 unbeaten for Khazar

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 12 matches without defeat is a foundation Khazar did not have in the autumn.

Market

Bahlul Ozobic hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Khazar can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Cəlal Hüseynov in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Khazar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Namig Sadygov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Loan watch

Javid Medvedev wants to come home

“I did not go to Ravan to sit and watch. I want to come back to Khazar and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.

Squad

Alexey Ploschadny knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alexey Ploschadny trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

Khazar pick somebody else ahead of Eddy Mammadov

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Bahlul Ozobic

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Khazar draw a blank against Inter

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Inter defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief

58 Edition

The Khazar Gazette

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Bahlul Ozobic breaks a bone — 52 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 52 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Alexey Ploschadny

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Şahin Şahniyarov is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Tempers go at Khazar

Baltasar Rodríguez was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The terraces

Khazar supporters have found a favourite in Alexey Ploschadny

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Alexey Ploschadny has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Market

Eddy Mammadov is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Khazar has been clear about where Eddy Mammadov stands, which is more than many ever get.

Match

Khazar and Qarabag cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Qarabag came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

Player ratings

Baltasar Rodríguez runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Elçin Əlicanov was immovable

11 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

In brief

38 Edition

The Khazar Gazette

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Emin Dadashov out for 122 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Khazar will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Only the photograph left for Shahriyar Amirguliyev

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Shahriyar Amirguliyev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Khazar the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Khazar

Cəlal Hüseynov was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

In brief

31 Edition

The Khazar Gazette

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Eddy Mammadov: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Khazar have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tuure Siira wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Khazar know it.

Squad

Jo Jin-Ho in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Khazar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief